SmartPhones

With smartphones rapidly overtaking cell phones in the mobile market, it's only logical that smartphone makers are looking ahead to what will keep consumers coming back for more. As such, Information Week recently published a stellar article on the subject, peeking into the innovations popular manufacturers of the devices already glued to our collective, cultural ears are planning for making their products even "stickier".

Technology advances fast, and that's why today's experts see many amazing advances in smartphone technology in store for us in just two years from now. A chief Motorola executive summarizes it this way, by pointing out the three key trends that will alter the very "role and nature" of mobile devices to come:

• content digitization
• ubiquitous, global broadband
• PC miniaturization

This combination of elements will define what's to come in smartphone innovation in just a matter of 24 months or less, namely in the way of:

• hardware
• operating systems
• the internet "ecosystem"

Already, in the way of global broadband, companies like Verizon and Sprint have spread their 3G networks across the whole of the United States, with T-Mobile and AT&T not far behind.

In terms of sheer processing power and the placing of the computing power of the PC into your pants pocket, industry leader Intel is readying the new Moorestown chip, promising smartphone users even greater access to the power these increasingly faster networks offer.

And as for the world of the worldwide web, already corporate giants in other areas of technology are seeing the value of getting into the smartphone game. Consider web search giant Google, whose upcoming mobile platform Andriod is poised to revolutionize the smartphone market, engendering the creation of whole new smartphone devices by all the major manufacturers.

There's much more ahead for smartphone users, and not very far ahead at that. Stay tuned, because it's all coming soon to a smartphone near you.

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According to Information Week, a company named Strategy Analysis has released its predictions for the future of the mobile phone ten years hence. And topping this list, prediction number one is that all mobile phones will be smartphones.

Cell phones already perform much of what PCs just started being able to do ten years ago - from music to video to voice to on-the-go networking, file-sharing, and web-browsing at broadband speeds.

Calling the smartphones of the future "media phones", an associate director commenting for Strategy Analysis cites innovations like a rollable display and transformers as revolutionizing the already revolutionary technology. At the very least, he reports, every mobile phone in every household and workplace in the world will have a wide screen, an expansive keyboard, and a more powerful battery than the marketplace has yet seen.

Already powerful applications like Windows Mobile are infusing today's smartphones with enhanced capabilities comparable to those of their home computer. That kind of customizable integration of the PC programs a user relies on most will certainly only continue (and continue to improve).

Also making headway in its course towards future perfection is the intuitive user interface. Smart phone users can look forward to the amount of buttons they have to press and the number of menus they have to cycle through on the graciously steady decline.

The future of smartphones also sees the imminent demise of the brick-and-mortar wireless store, as something called Mobile Device Management (MDM) - whereby consumers to design, buy, update, upgrade, and repair their own smart phones all over the internet - becomes commonplace.

One feature that's notably absent from the general smartphone market that is predicted to be mainstream by 2018 is the integration of multiradio chipsets in every smartphone. Soon people will be able to listen to PAN, LAN, MAN, and WAN radios over their phones.

To find out more about this vision of our collective technological future, read the full article in InformationWeek.

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